TGIF

So glad this week is over. So I did end up giving the blog a facelift and doing a LO. I did this with Sara's mini kit "In the Garden" that will be in the Sweet Shoppe Assortment Vol 2 tomorrow. The assortment will have 9 mini kits 1 from each designer at the Sweet Shoppe for $2.49. That's a steal considering they are usually that much a piece. So here is the page I did with it.

I bought DMM Spring issue this morning. The kit is awesome in it! Can't wait to use it. I also picked up the Creative Keepsakes April issue and the Scrapbook Answers April issue, which has a cute little kit from Rhonna Farrer in it. So I checked out Donna Downeys Decorative Journals from the library. Let me just say, I LOVE this book and WILL be buying it soon(*edited, I bought this one as well as her Photo Decor and Simple Scrapbooks Scrapbooking Made Easy). So while looking through it she talks about the Xyron 900, she uses it for a lot of her altered projects. Most of my friends know that I kind of got into altered scrapbooking projects over the Christmas holidays. I had the hardest time getting adhesive to do what I wanted. SO... I went to Michaels today and bought the Xyron for $20 more than they have it at Hobby Lobby for. So I will be returning it tomorrow and buying it at Hobby Lobby instead. I found this out because Michaels didn't have the Scrapbook Answers magazine I wanted so I went to Hobby Lobby and while I was there, saw they had it cheaper. UGH!

Mindy has a new kit called Playful. It is great for kids layouts. I will make it as soon as I have some park pictures to scrap with, hopefully will have a LO ready by Monday at the latest.

So this morning Tally woke up at 7am as usual and I came into the office/playroom and layed on the floor. I have comfy couch cushions across one of the walls in here. Well Tally played while I "rested" and then fell asleep next to me. Next thing I know it's 11:15am. Haven't had breakfast or anything and we usually get out for grocery shopping around 12. So I hurried and fed us breakfast and took a shower. This day could not have flew by any quicker.

Ok off to read some magazines and maybe do some scrapbooking. Have a nice evening!

And she did it again...

Have I mentioned how I really really HATE waking up before 8-8:30, yet there I was at 7am getting out of bed. It's bad enough she's cut her naps back most days now she wants to be up at 6-7am. I'll get through this, not happy about it but I'll live.

Well I ended up not cooking last night because I started on a LO . Around 6-6:30 if I haven't started dinner, Matt gets ready to head to McD's or Taco Bell. LOL So I had some McD's chicken nuggets. So tonight will be the roasted chicken. Now to figure out lunch. I really like the idea of this recipe journal and I am really excited to see how many appetizer recipes I will have this weekend after Tiffany sends the zip with them all in it. Give me an idea if I should send them to be printed every week as I get the zips of each category or wait until the end to do them all. Now to find a cute way to display them, altered photo album or recipe box. Guess that also depends on the amount of them.

Ok so here is the layout that is not my usual style but it turned out great. IMO

I used Janel's flower template which can be found on her blog here. There is a great little gift over at Sweet Dreamers head on over if you love wordart! I seriously need to update my links and I'm thinking about new look here soon (for the blog) ;)

Ok heading off to work on that new look or maybe a page, you'll just have to wait and see!

I feel like I was punished today...

Tally woke up at 5:30 after I didn't get to sleep until 1 something. How does she know these things? LOL She wakes up early to punish me. So I've been out of it all day. Wanted to go to the playdate at McD's, you normally wouldn't hear me saying this but they re-did the play area at the one near my house. It is a one of a kind play area at the moment. I just wasn't going to be able to get a shower in time to go, Tally has been cranky and believe it or not, I have been too. :)

So I opened a scrapyourownwebsite today. Matt was supposed to design Tally's website a year ago, obviously that didn't happen. So... I took it into my own hands. He is busy and I understand that so that is why I did this. Plus it's pretty cool. If you pay a year in advance you get it for a deal at 5.95 a month, plus on certain blogs or if you were signed up to the newsletter you get an additional 15% off. So I spent a little over $60 to have this little site plus all the cool extras. You get a free kit a month, so it's all worth it! Tally's Webpage

I joined the Recipe Journal at ScrapArtist. The first recipe was for an appetizer which I did Weight Watchers Crab Rangoons.

Not sure whats for dinner tonight. Thinking about Roasted Chicken Breast or I could put some BBQ sauce on them. Not sure though, I might just have leftover Taco Soup. It was tasty last night, not sure what I did different but it was extra spicy. YUM

Not sure about AI last night. I don't think anybody blew me away. I'm thinking Lisa might be getting the boot tonight. We will see, after Bones. I'm not really a tv person anymore. I used to watch everything and now I just have certain nights. Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Awww crap, I missed Real World last night. ugh

Alright I'm off... if you stop by Tally's site, sign her guestbook!

Playdate and Taco Soup Recipe

We had a fun little playdate. The girls play so well together now that Tally is all over the place. Tally has been hugging lately and went to hug Ann Marie and knocked her down. LOL Here are some of my favorite pics from today.

Ok before I write out this recipe, a few things... I am on Weight Watchers, so it is healthy other than the sodium. I use low sodium stuff in it because of that. It can be altered to you taste on certain things. Original calls for 3 different cans of beans, I use 2. You can also add some lean ground beef, turkey or boca burger. I have done all of the above but for the most part I don't add meat. One of the reasons I like this recipe is because it's my didn't thaw anything meal. LOL

Taco Soup

• 32 ozs Fat Free Chicken Broth or water
• 1 diced onion
• 2 cans diced tomatoes (I use the ones with chiles in it)
• 2-3 cans of beans ( ok this is where you can vary to your taste, I use 1 can of Spicy Chili Beans and 1 can of black beans)
• frozen corn or canned corn (I use frozen, I like corn so I throw the whole bag in)
• 1 pkg taco seasoning mix
• 1 pkg ranch dressing mix
• optional 1/2-1 lb of cooked ground meat

Put all ingredients in large pot on top of the stove, bring to a fast boil and lower temp to low and simmer for 1 hour or put in crockpot on low for 4 hours.

There it is. Quick and Easy! Almost no prep ;)

Almost time for AI, ready to see how everyone does tonight. Not sure who I want to get voted off just yet. I think they all have potential. Even though I think Chris is going to win!

Oops missed a day

I was going to post last night and my cable went down. So here I am this morning. Tally and I are both feeling better. I actually worked out yesterday morning and my abs are killing me today. I'm looking into Turbo Jam, not sure if you've seen the informercial but it looks pretty cool. I want something fun that I will like doing. If I work on getting the moves down for a week or two, i should be able to keep up with it ;) So we'll see if I get it first, Matt and I talked and he's playing the maybe card right now. Going to try and fit it into the budget, since it's a $60 set. I'll let you know over the coming weeks, if I get it.

Going to a friends for a playdate today. We sooooo need to get out of this house. Get Tally around some other kids so on the way home she takes a nap. That's what I'm going for these days, at least 1 nap. Don't get me started on how she took 2 naps Sunday for daddy. So playdate today with friend, then playgroup Wednesday and possibly Friday. That is depending on how the week goes, since that's usually my grocery day.

Probably going to make some easy Taco Soup for dinner tonight. Hoping to get some pictures today of the girls for maybe some scrapbook pages. Not that I'm going to have a lot of time to do that today but we'll see. Alright... I need to get ready, I have and hour before I have to be there and I need a shower and the kiddo needs a quick bath.

Small scrapping vent....

This is just something that annoys me with the digital scrapbooking group... I seriously think that a lot of people get comments on there LO's, not because they are good but because of who they are. I have seen many LO's lately that aren't terrific from some known creative team members. I guess it's cause I'm jealous that I am venting right now. I totally believe that scrapbooking is for yourself and your family. It is still great to get comments when you post on boards though. There are a couple of LO's I've done lately that have gotten no comments but then somebody that is on 10 CT's with a semi close LO gets 10-15 comments. It just annoys the crap out of me and I just want to go back to posting my layouts here and my personal photo site instead of putting them in scrapbooking communties. I am so guilty about not posting comments myself and maybe I should take the time each day to start doing what I'm venting about. It's a good thing I'm on the two CT's that I want to be on and that I have to post these LO's. Now to stop whining and get to giving out those comments that I'm venting about other people not giving. ;)

Ok I'm done...

Sunday is going way to fast...

I can't believe it's already Sunday night. Waking up at noon does that to you, I guess.

So Saturday was fun. Went running around with my mother, mostly lunch and grocery shopping. Matt went and played pool with my dad. Then last night like every Saturday night, we went to my parents for dinner. We enjoy my parents company and they enjoy ours it seems. LOL So after dinner at my parents I get online as usual to chat with friends. Then end up getting out at 11pm to have a couple of drinks with the girls. Which was fun, just would rather leave out before 11pm next time ;) We went to Cozmos (a little bar/coffee/sandwich place with internet access) had a few drinks and then went over to Denny's to sober up a little before heading home. Time went fast and before we knew it, it was 2am. That is the latest I've been out in ages. I had fun ladies and we need to do it again soon. Here is a page I did with the pictures I took, good thing I brought my camera!

So now it's Sunday and time to make dinner. Haven't done much of anything, other than a little bit of cleaning and laundry. I am feeling 90% better, just a little bit of congestion left which I'm used to with my allergies. Better start dinner before Matt starts whining that he's hungry. Enjoy the rest of this lovely weekend!

I'm free... for a day ;)

Still not feeling well but I think I'm on the mend. Don't seem to be the faucet I once was. LOL So it looks like I might be able to enjoy this nice cold spring weekend. (Note the sarcasm)

I usually do my grocery shopping on Fridays around noon, I wasn't even showered at noon today. Needless to say... groceries will be taken care of tomorrow.

My mother picked Tally up around 1:30 to spend the night at her house. Explains the I'm free post title ;) Finally took a shower before Matt got home. We went to dinner and then picked up movies on the way home. Elizabethtown and The Longest Yard. The Longest Yard was hilarious of course. I wasn't to sure about Elizabethtown at first but I ended up getting in to it in the middle, pretty decent movie.

So a little bit of scrapping news. Mindy has a cute little paperpack gift of her blog, so go get it while it last and be sure to leave her a sweet comment. I also did a LO for the 3D Challenge at http://www.sweetdreamsshoppe.com/, so head on over and check out Angela and Emilys site and do the challenge yourself! Here is the one I did today...

Ok time to wake Matt up off the couch, I hate doing this and since it's the weekend I should leave him there. I won't though, cause I'm nice. LOL Enjoy the weekend!

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Not sure if it's my connection or what, but it looks like my template is messed up on blogger. I'll ask someone to check as soon as a friend comes on or email me and let me know if you can't see my messages.

Still sick, even worse today. I sound awful and can barely breath. I went to bed early last night or so I thought I was. Instead I layed in bed and couldn't go to sleep. It sucked! So even though Tally woke up at 10, I still feel like I didn't get any sleep. I didn't get anything done, at all. I'm going to try and start a load of laundry right now, so I have something to wear tomorrow. Tally didn't take one nap today, she feel asleep on the floor while I went to Target to get some Nyquil but woke up when I got home. So she finally went to bed at 10pm. She still has a runny nose and a occasional cough but I think it's starting to go away. I think we have another tooth cutting now too, on the bottom.

So while at Target, I picked up a new book. "Alone" by Lisa Gardner I'm hoping that I can get into it. I've read some of her books and I'm pretty sure I like them. lol We'll see.

I'm going to finish up my laundry and start on my book. Have a good evening.

I sooo blame dh for this one!

Still sick here and it's all my husbands fault. Seriously... he had it first, then Tally and now ME! I hate colds. They make me feel like I'm on my death bed. Need to blame someone, so Matt you are it! Drives me nuts since he only feels like crap for maybe 2 days then is fine. I on the other hand feel like crap for a week. Ugh him and his good immune system. teehee Poor Tally must be like me, cause she's been fighting this for a while now. Still no naps on the home front either.... she had one tiny nap in her bouncy chair yesterday but none... zip... zero... in her crib. I am going to miss those.

So Miss Kim is having a scraplift challenge on her blog. And I love scraplifts so I have to join in. I scraplifted her "Buds" LO.

Ok on the food issue. I have not been counting points since being sick. Hopefully it's not going to hurt me in the weightloss front but we will see on Saturday. Which hopefully for Matt's sake, I am feeling better by then. If not... he better start praying is all I'm going to say ;)

Ok since starting to write this post, Tally was put in her crib for a nap. She cried for a minute but it's now quiet. So I am assuming that she is napping... but shhhh don't tell her thats what she is doing. ;) So with that, I am going to try and take one myself or at least read some of my book. Wish me luck, I'm going to need it.